So long #MTV News, it was a great ride 📺🎸 https://t.co/t4ygMnP4LQ
— Martha Quinn Ⓥ (@MarthaQuinn) May 10, 2023
May 11, 2023
"Who has clear plastic and fish tubing laying around the house?"
Once there was journalism — some people think — but then came the decline... who knows when it began?
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I think I was of the generation that was supposed to be watching MTV but rarely did.
I was too busy working my way through college.
Priorities...
Aw, Martha Quinn. Nostalgia forgives many sins.
That plastic tube outfit was the bomb. So sexy.
Home-made tit-sling.
That can't be Martha in the Twitter photo, can it. The lady looks 34. Martha must be in her 60's.
Who can name the 5 original MTV vj's? Bonus question - who are still alive?
Cheers.
Hated Quinn. Kurt, that Wubba wubba girl and...Daaaaaysieeee. I saw Daisy in Miami a few times. Stunning...
MTV courted too many hair bands. Wasn't my music...
I was watching a documentary about ZZ Top on Netflix and one of the band members talked about when MTV started and the effect it had on the band's success. He told a story about how someone called him up when MTV first came on and told him to check it out and he and his wife started watching and he figured it would be like other tv channels, a 30 minute program, an hour program, smething like that but it didn't seem to have a finish, videos just kept playing and after 4 or 5 hours he was saying, "hey when does this thing end?"
I don't think that story has anything to do with the decline of journalism except I think that the Internet had a lot to do with finishing MTV off and same with journalism.
I'm so old I remember when MTV used to play music videos.
Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, and J.J. Jackson (who is the dead one).
Of course, I listen to Sirius 80s all the time, so an easy question for me, but I was regular viewer from 1982 to around 1988.
Alway liked the power pop 'Words' by Missing Persons, in costume and big hair, at the 1983 US Festival...
Words
Do you hear me?
Do you care?
Do you hear me?
Do you care?
My lips are moving and the sound's coming out
The words are audible but I have my doubts
That you realize what has been said
You look at me as if you're in a daze
It's like the feeling at the end of the page
When you realize you don't know what you just read
What are words for
When no one listens anymore
What are words for
When no one listens
What are words for
When no one listens
There's no use talking at all
I might as well go up and talk to a wall
'Cause all the words are having no effect at all
It's a funny thing, am I all alone?
Something has to happen to change the direction
What little filters though is giving you the wrong impression
It's a sorry state, I say to myself
Let me get by over your dead body
Hope to see you soon, when will I know?
Doors three feet wide with no locks open
Walking always backwards in the faces of strangers
Time could be my friend
But it's less than nowhere now, it's less than nowhere now
It's less than nowhere now, nowhere now...
Pursue it any further and another thing you'll find
Not only are they deaf and dumb they could be going blind
No one notices, I think I'll dye my hair blue
Media overload bombarding you with action
It's getting near impossible to cause distraction
Someone answer me before I pull the plug
MTV promoted some wild obscure stuff in the 1980's. Not everyone's' cup of tea - but it was different.
Locally we had teletunes on Sat morning. Same thing - obscure modern rock.
I think promoting obscure bands is a good thing. How many times do we need to hear the same Journey song on the radio?
Spring Session M was a favorite back then. The whole album is good from start to finish.
Original MTV was the TikTok of the time. You'd sit down and let the videos "scroll" by and before you know it you had wasted 3 hours and watched the A-ha "Take on Me" video for the 4th time.
Kurt Loder was really good at his job.
The rise of YouTube largely pushed MTV out of the music-video business. It's subsequent reality-TV incarnation occupied a unique niche, in that it was the only programming showing the daily lives of young soldiers and the working poor. For an effete white-collar worker like me, it was enlightening.
I will admit to seeing Missing Persons open for Leon Russell in 1982, at Raincross Square in Riverside, Ca..
Dale Bozzio was an eyeful and Terry Bozzio is a helluva drummer!
Lie, lay, lain
Lay, laid, laid
D.D. Driver said...
Kurt Loder was really good at his job.
Wasn't he at Rolling Stone and said MTV was terrible and then ended up being there forever?
I was in college (UW-Madison) when MTV started. Some of the videos were cheesy and cheap, but, yeah, it did expose one to bands (or genres) you normally wouldn't have any interest in. Of course, they had airtime to fill and were throwing just about anything anybody gave them out on the air. Best part about the VJs was they would give you actual information about the acts (as in the clip provided), who they played with before, etc. It was actually interesting.
I had a wisdom tooth out and was too drugged up and miserable to read or watch anything else, so I sat there and watched MTV for like 7 hours.
When MTV appeared in the early 80s, most rock stations, especially in small and medium markets, just weren't playing new wave music. Since English bands had long used music vids as promotional tools, that was the bulk of MTV's programming. I saw the Jam, the English Beat, the Specials, and many others on that channel and got to hear them long before they got any airplay on US stations. Later, MTV really popularized Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen. Their albums sold tens of millions of copies because of heavy rotation on MTV.
a-ha's Take on Me was the best of music videos.
Martha is pumping olives these days.I think it was inspired by Olive Oyl.
I had a crush on Martha Quinn, back in the day.
I loved those early years of MTV - it cemented my love for New Wave music. I only got to watch it occasionally as I lived in the sticks and cable was nonexistent.
Martha Quinn covers the midday show for the IHeartRadio 80s+ channel here in the Bay Area. I don't listen on weekdays, so I never hear her. But I do remember in late summer 2021 I happened to tune in on a Saturday while driving around and Martha was doing a fill-in segment. She was lamenting that her child was now going off to college after Labor Day and was really bummed about having an empty house.
While Dale was never my cup of tea, my husband loves her. He was always so sure she was a California girl through and through until he saw her give an interview in the late 80s and opened her mouth. Pure Boston suburban. (She grew up in Medford, MA) He played the YouTube clip for me once. I was on the floor in laughter.
I said "oh, Martha." I said "Martha Quinn!
I wanna be doing some sin with you Martha Quinn
I wanna be gettin' in Martha Quinn"
I said, "I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin!"
Mojo Nixon
I said "oh, Martha." I said "Martha Quinn!
I wanna be doing some sin with you Martha Quinn
I wanna be gettin' in Martha Quinn"
I said, "I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin!"
Mojo Nixon
I am watching clip, and I can't figure out why my buddy Greg is listed at the Tweeter! Small world, I went to grad school with Renoff. Love your blog, never thought much of MTV news.
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